rescue, deliverance, delivery, saving
(noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger; “work is the deliverance of mankind”; “a surgeon’s job is the saving of lives”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
deliverance (countable and uncountable, plural deliverances)
Act of delivering or conveying something.
Delivery in childbirth.
Extrication from danger, imprisonment, rescue etc.
• (act of delivering, something delivered): delivery
Source: Wiktionary
De*liv"er*ance, n. Etym: [F. délivrance, fr. délivrer.]
1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive. He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives. Luke iv. 18. One death or one deliverance we will share. Dryden.
2. Act of bringing forth children. [Archaic] Shak.
3. Act of speaking; utterance. [Archaic] Shak.
Note: In this and in the preceding sense delivery is the word more commonly used.
4. The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint. I do desire deliverance from these officers. Shak.
5. Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly. [Scot.]
6. (Metaph.)
Definition: Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 June 2025
(verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; “he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
